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A young mother moved to the Bay Area from Honduras and worked toward a green card while...

Back-rent grant boon for hair stylist FacebookTwitterEmail DelCasale, 65, jobless because salons and other businesses are closed during the pandemic, says people “have no idea how you’re struggling.”RAMIN RAHIMIAN / Special to The Chronicle As a hair stylist, Sandra DelCasale knows that outward appearances matter. But she also knows they can obscure as much as they reveal. When the pandemic shuttered the salon where she works, DelCasale suddenly found herself in the precarious position of living off the savings and credit she had intended to put into her growing hair styling business. S...

After COVID-19 layoff, months of homelessness, San Jose family settles in new apartment FacebookTwitterEmail 4 1of4Serenity Navarrette, 13, sits in front of her family christmas tree and pets her cat on December 11, 2020 in San Jose, CA.Nina Riggio / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of4Serenity Navarrette, 13, stands in her families apartment and pets her cat on December 11, 2020 in San Jose, CA.Nina Riggio / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of4Robert Navarrette, tries to mount "reindeer antlers" on his Chevy Impala on December 11, 2020 at the families apartm...

Season of Sharing helps St. Helena family in aftermath of Glass Fire [San Francisco Chronicle] Dec. 27—Teresa Plancarte sat on her living room couch on a fall Saturday evening, marveling at the St. Helena vineyards and the pines just outside her front door. And she thought, “My God, nature is so beautiful.” Nearly 24 hours later, at 3 a.m., Plancarte, her husband, Esiquio, and her 34-year-old special-needs son, Rogelio, were awakened by sirens and megaphones warning them to evacuate. A wildfire was approaching. Plancarte, 66, grabbed what she could before the family left their home and...

Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund helps homeless family climb out of despair FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Season of Sharing’s one-time grant enabled Jennifer Monique Hill to move her family into a mobile home in San Jose.Steve RubensteinShow MoreShow Less 2of2 After four motels in two years, Jennifer Monique Hill has her own home in San Jose thanks to the Season of Sharing Fund.Steve RubensteinShow MoreShow Less A motel room is supposed to be for a night or two, not for a year or two. But Jennifer Monique Hill had been living in one motel room after another, in Stockton and in San Jose, for the...